Release schedule for 21.0

XEmacs 21.0-beta43 "Spanish" (hastily renamed today) will be the final 21.0 beta. It will be released tonight, probably within an hour or two. I'm not very close to emptying the incoming patch queue, and I haven't even started on Lisp package changes so don't panic if you don't see one or some of your patches in this beta. I intend to make a release on schedule on Saturday (~24 hours from this writing). This will be called 21.0-pre1 "Swedish Landrace". There will be other 21.0-pre releases made as show stopping bugs are found. I'm looking for a quiet ~2 week testing period before settling on the version we will release. The more testing we do now, the better off we are in the long term. This is do or die time for MS Windows testers. Please bang on things as hard as you can. We know everything isn't perfect, but it is important that there aren't any easy crashes left. The first XEmacs I released was 20.0, and it advertised Mule and Canna support for the first time. It was trivially easy to make this drop core (enter Canna fence mode and hit Delete). I do not want the same kind of oversight in the newest feature of 21.0 which is the non-Unix support. And yes, running on MS Windows '98 is something desirable and needs to be tested. I'm well-aware of the main short-comings in packages and those too have to be fixed prior to release. I seriously doubt we'll get the documentation issues completed by the end of the month so there's still time to get the worst of the bugs fixed.